51-59, HIGH STREET
51-59, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135568
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 51-59, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 51-59, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135568
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 51-59, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 51-59, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 51-59, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Crofton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE3792117842
Details
SE31NE
3/26
21.3.77
CROFTON
HIGH STREET
(north side)
Nos 51 to 59 (odd)
GV
II
House and attached cottages, altered to row of 5 cottages. Late C17 house
(Nos 51 and 53) encasing earlier timber frame, mid C18 cottages; all have mid-late
C20 alterations. Hammer-dressed stone with stone slate and pantile
roofs. 2 storeys with single storey outshut to rear of Nos 51, 53 and 57. Nos 51
and 53 originally 2-cell house with central lobby-entry plan which retains doorway
with tie-stone jambs and segmental-arched lintel, other inserted cottage doorway
to left end. 3 windows to each floor with renewed stone lintels and sills. Coped
gables with kneelers. Central stack to ridge. Nos 55 and 57 single-cell cottages,
each with doorway with window over and plain window with same above; projecting
band broken by inserted bay window of No 57. Coped gables. Central brick ridge
stack (rendered). No 59, at right angles to rear of No 57, largely remodelled and
has 2 bays of large C20 windows to each floor and doorway flanked by windows with
window above. Central ridge stack (rendered).
Interior: No 53 has fireplace with large shallow-arched lintel with chamfered
surround. Stop-chamfered spine beam and large-scantling joists, post to timbered
arcade.
Listing NGR: SE3792117842
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342330
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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